This Current Comment was posted by Lew Evans. 'Profit' and 'cost' in electricity have multiple meanings that are shaping the electricity debate.This note sets out the meanings and origins of four profit measures referred ...
This paper was written by William Steel, Toby Daglish, Lisa Marriott, Norman Gemmell, Howell, Bronwyn and presented at a seminar on 20 March 2013, info here
How can the state regulate the firms it also runs? Professor Cambini presents recent evidence based on EU utilities and telecom companies showing the interplay between independent regulation, ownership and political ...
Communications Day invited Brownyn Howell to speak recently at The NBN: Rebooted Making Australian Broadband Work two day conference held in Sydney on 18 and 19 November 2013.
Attitudes towards the proper form of organisation and regulation of the electricity sector have shifted several times over the past two decades. These shifts include a wave of liberalisation that encompassed many regions ...
Competition policy is typically intended to protect competition where workable competition is possible. Conversely, regulation can either preclude competition, or can act as a substitute for competition when workable ...
The Labour Party and the Greens have made electricity sector restructuring a key plank of their 2014 election campaign. Their proposal to replace New Zealand's wholesale electricity market with a central buyer (known as ...
In order to distinguish predatory pricing from competition on the merits, the courts in the United States and in the European Union have established cost-based tests. In contrast, Australia and New Zealand make use of a ...
The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation(2013)
The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation (ISCR) hosted a one day Conference and Executive Development workshops bringing together the latest research and experience of Public-Private Partnerships ...
Imports into New Zealand are tax free if the duty and GST payable is less than $60. This has resulted in an effective value threshold of between $226 and $399, significantly higher than many of our trading partners. We ...
In February, Communications minister Amy Adams brought forward the planned review of the regulatory arrangements for New Zealand's telecommunications sector. The move was prompted by emerging tensions between the Commerce ...
Howell, Bronwyn recently attended the 2013 European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, held in Florence, Italy from 20-23 October.
This monograph investigates the role of the electricity market in the allocation of water and other resources used as inputs into electricity generation. We base our observations on the outputs of an original electricity ...
Internationally, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries instigating charity regulation. Public interest theory suggests that regulation increases organisational transparency, protects (or encourages) ...
Lew Evans presented this seminar on 3 September to ISCR Members and a delegation of 30 Presidents and Directors of cooperatives of the Brazilian State of Parana drawn mainly from the agricultural and credit sectors including: ...
Bronwyn Howell General Manager ISCR presented Diverse Dimensions of the 'Digital Divide': Perspectives from New Zealand at the session "Digital Divde in Asia-Pacific" at the Keio University Global COE Programme Conference ...
Both the Australian and New Zealand governments have committed to spend substantial sums in order to bring forward the nationwide deployment of ultra-fast fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband networks. With deployment ...
This paper examines issues of the digital divide in each country and discusses similarities and differences in the policies adopted to ameliorate it. The paper presented here is subtitled 'a perspective from New Zealand' ...
Conventional wisdom suggests that CEO membership of the compensation committee is an open invitation to rent extraction by self-serving executives. However using data from New Zealand - where CEO compensation committee ...